NOMINAL SENTENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 5

NOMINAL SENTENCE

RISING OF THE COURT

Two separate cases in which young men were charged with unlawful carnal knowledge of the same girl were .tried in the Supreme Court yesterday. In tho first, Norman Boy Hawthorn, as reported in yesterday's "Post," was found guilty with a strong recommendation to extreme leniency on one of two charges against him, and he was ordered by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) to be detained until the rising of the Court. Bertram Stanford was the accused in the second caße, and thero was one-charge against him. Tho jury returned a similar verdict and his Honour imposed a similar sentence. The only distinction was that, whereas the Court rose immediately after Hawthorn had been sentenced, Stanford had to wait over an hour bef&ro the Court adjourned. . .■.,.,.->-.,,_

In Stanford's case, as ho had done in Hawthorn's, his Honour commented on certain aspects of the evidence. Ho said ho did not wish to say anything unduly harsh about. the ' girl, but i .he certainly would not send a young man to prison where he had been convicted, although properly convicted, in such circumstances. The police had acted rightly and properly in bringing the case before- tho Court. It was quite a good thing that the puMic should know that there were cases, where young men. had to be protected, too, and that the Court would,protect them.

His Honour directed that there was no-need to keep Stanford in the cells until tho Court roso. He could be kept in ono of "tho side rooms and made comfortable.

Mr. A. J. Mazengarb was counsel for Hawthorn, and Mr. S. W. Fitzherbort for Stanford; ■ ■ -; - ■•■ - -■■ •■-■.'. .